FICIAL  PUBLICATIONS 
OF  CORNELL  UNIVERSITY 


VOLUME  III 


NUMBER  A 


THE 

DEDICATION  OF 

RAND   HALL 

MAY  23,  1912 


OCTOBER  1,  1912 

PUBLISHED  BY  CORNELL  UNIVERSITY 

ITHACA,  N.  Y. 


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PROCEEDINGS 

AT  THE 

DEDICATION 

OF 

RAND   HALL 


ORDER  OF  EXERCISES 

President  Jacob  Gould  Schurman,  presiding 


Alma  Mater     -  Cornell  Glee  Club  Quartette 

Address       -  Henry  Herman  Westinghouse,  '72 

Selections  -  Cornell  Glee  Club  Quartette 

Address       -  Frederick  Arthur  Halsey,  '78 

Presentation  of  key  of  Rand  Hall      -    Mrs.  Florence  Rand  Lang 
Acceptance  of  key  of  Rand  Hall  -  President  Schurman 

Address  -  -  Director  Albert  William  Smith 


AND  HALL  was  presented  to  Cornell  University  by 
Mrs.  Florence  Rand  Lang,  in  memory  of  her  father, 
Jasper  Raymond  Rand,  of  her  uncle,  Addison  Crittenden 
Rand,  and  of  her  brother,  Jasper  Raymond  Rand,  jr. 
Rand  Hall,  the  new  home  of  the  pattern  and  machine  shops, 
is  situated  east  of  the  present  Mechanical  Laboratory  of  the  Sibley 
College  of  Mechanical  Engineering  and  the  Mechanic  Arts.  The 
building,  which  is  of  concrete,  steel,  and  brick  construction,  is  three 
stories  high,  170  feet  long  and  50  feet  wide,  with  a  wing  40  feet  long 
and  35  feet  wide. 


OPENING   REMARKS 

PRESIDENT  SCHURMAN 

Before  the  occupation  of  Rand  Hall  by  the  departments  of  Sibley 
College,  for  which  it  is  intended,  we  have  thought  it  desirable  to  have 
an  informal  opening.  All  formality  has  been  avoided  and  invita- 
tions have  been  sent  only  to  the  immediate  friends  and  members 
of  our  University  community.  We  regret  very  much  that,  on 
account  of  absence  in  Europe,  our  invitation  could  not  have  been 
accepted  by  Mr.  Hiram  W.  Sibley,  who  has  followed  his  father, 
the  late  Hiram  Sibley,  in  making  generous  gifts  to  Sibley  College. 
The  audience,  as  I  have  said,  is  made  up  of  our  own  immediate 
circle  —  undergraduates  and  professors,  with  a  sprinkling  of  alumni 
and  old  students.  Among  the  latter  is  a  gentleman,  now  a  Trustee 
of  the  University,  whom  we  have  selected  to  make  a  short  address 
in  commemoration  of  the  occasion.  He  bears  a  name  which  through- 
out the  civilized  world  is  associated  with  mechanical  and  electrical 
science  and  inventions.  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  I  present  Mr. 
Henry  Herman  Westinghouse,  who  will  now  address  you. 

ADDRESS    OF    MR.    HENRY    HERMAN    WESTINGHOUSE 

Mr.  President,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 

While  the  dedication  of  an  important  edifice  to  educational  pur- 
poses is  always  a  cause  for  congratulation,  I  regard  this  particular 
occasion  as  possessing  special  characteristics,  bringing  with  it  a 
measure  of  importance  to  those  interested  in  Cornell  University, 
that  differentiates  it  in  some  respects  from  the  average  of  similar 
occasions.  The  dedication  of  a  building  devoted  to  the  interests 
of  any  well  established  principle  or  creed  simply  marks  progress; 
but  the  opening  of  this  structure  not  only  marks  progress,  it 
is  a  vindication  of  principles  enunciated  within  the  memory  of  men 
still  living,  on  this  Campus,  and  a  justification  of  the  plea  of  the 
Founder  of  the  University  for  a  system  of  universal  education. 
It  is  a  monument  to  the  educational  spirit  of  Cornell  which  Walter 
Craig  Kerr,  one  of  the  greatest  of  her  sons,  crystallized  so  finely 


8  THE   DEDICATION   OF   RAND   HALL 

when  he  said:  "All  knowledge  is  for  use".  All  knowledge  is  for 
use  and  the  calling  which  to-day  is  ordinary  and  common  may  to- 
morrow be  a  scientific  and  honorable  profession.  The  opening  of 
this  beautiful  and  dignified  building  in  which  are  to  be  taught  the 
scientific  principles,  financial  and  mechanical,  which  underlie  all 
manufacturing  and  engineering,  marks,  as  nothing  else  could,  the 
rise  of  the  engineering  profession,  in  a  brief  half  century,  from  a 
crude  and  humble  calling  to  one  of  the  most  respected  professions 
of  to-day. 

It  is  difficult  to  reflect  upon  the  broader  aspects  of  the  affairs  of 
the  University  without  realizing  the  fullness  with  which  the  educa- 
tional needs  of  humanity  were  impressed  upon  the  consciousness 
of  the  Founder.  We  are  well  nigh  amazed  at  his  prophetic  vision, 
which  led  him  to  see  the  vast  importance  of  grouping  together  in 
one  great  educational  institution,  full  opportunities  for  advanced 
instruction  in  all  branches  of  learning.  That  Ezra  Cornell  had  a 
clear  conception  of  the  economic  and  administrative  advantages 
of  such  an  educational  institution,  naturally  followed  as  a  result  of 
his  wide  experience  in  important  practical  affairs.  It  is  also  a 
matter  of  common  knowledge  that  he  possessed  an  adequate  apprecia- 
tion of  the  reactive  influences  of  enforced  contact  between  the 
educationally  divergent  elements  of  the  student  body  upon  each 
other  —  thereby  bringing  to  each  and  all  a  broadened  vision  of  the 
multifarious  problems  of  life,  instead  of  the  restricted  horizon  that 
accompanies  the  isolated  pursuit  of  a  single  course  of  study.  And, 
expressed  in  commercial  parlance,  we  refer  to  the  quantity  and 
quality  of  the  product  of  this  University  for  full  confirmation  of  his 
judgment  as  to  the  most  effective  means  for  supplying  the  highest 
order  of  education  at  minimum  cost.  While  there  may  seem  to  be 
a  discordant  note,  or  at  least  an  absence  of  complete  harmony,  in 
referring  here  to  the  cost  of  education,  yet  we  know  that  one  of  the 
restrictions  placed  upon  its  acquirement  is  its  cost,  and  that  what- 
ever contributes  to  its  economical  production  increases  the  effective 
and  useful  radius  of  action  of  educational  institutions.  One  of  the 
highest  tributes  to  his  genius  and  foresight  is  the  fact  that  these 
principles,  financial  and  educational,  which  were  so  clearly  apparent 
to  him,  have  as  yet  not  been  fully  grasped  by  present  day  educators 
and  at  this  moment  these  comparatively  simple  principles  still  form 
a  bone  of  contention  in  almost  every  State  where  industrial  educa- 
tion is  a  subject  for  consideration. 


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It  is  impossible  to  estimate  the  far-reaching  influence  which  the 
several  component  parts  of  Cornell  University  have  had  upon  one 
another  in  the  past,  and  this  influence  will  without  doubt  increase 
with  passing  years.  To  many  classically  educated  men  of  the 
first  faculty,  the  sight  of  the  early  Sibley  students  crossing  the 
Campus  on  their  way  to  the  shops  with  their  tin  dinner-buckets, 
must  have  been  a  strange  and  incongruous  sight.  No  doubt  they 
wondered  inwardly  or  protested  openly  regarding  the  expediency  or 
even  desirability  of  such  forms  of  university  activity,  as  many  of  us 
perhaps  still  wonder  when  we  see  other  forms  of  educational  activity 
toilsomely  lifting  themselves  up  from  the  mire  of  empiricism  and 
uncertainty  onto  the  solid  ground  of  scientific  knowledge.  Indeed 
it  required  an  Ezra  Cornell  to  appreciate  truly  the  significance 
of  this  small  beginning,  and  none  but  those  having  sublime  faith  in 
the  principles  involved  could  have  hoped  for  the  success  of  the 
experiment  when  the  attitude  of  the  educational  world  at  that  time 
is  considered.  The  idea  that  the  power  to  do  things  rests  on  an 
educational  and  scientific  basis  was,  and  for  that  matter  still  is,  an 
idea  that  many  men,  educators  and  others,  have  as  yet  not  fully 
grasped,  and  it  is  little  wonder  that  the  early  Sibley  student  was  not 
considered  quite  up  to  University  par. 

To  the  Sibley  students  of  early  days,  looking  southward  to  the 
three  grey  stone  buildings  which  then  alone  faced  the  valley,  it 
must  have  appeared  that  a  chasm  yawned  between  them  and  some 
of  the  older  and  more  dignified  forms  of  study  taught  therein.  Many 
of  them  no  doubt  looked  with  impatience  on  some  of  these  studies 
which  apparently  led  to  no  definite  results  and  could  not  assist  them 
in  their  practical  problems.  Echoes  of  these  ideas  are  still  to  be 
found  in  places  where  the  broader  view  of  human  life  and  purpose 
has  never  entered,  and  where  utilitarian  education  has  not  the 
modifying  influences  of  contact  with  learned  and  farsighted  men. 

Yet  students  and  faculty  of  both  these  classes  have  profited 
wonderfully  by  their  close  proximity  to  each  other.  To-day  the 
most  profound  classical  scholar  on  the  Campus  looking  northward 
acknowledges  his  indebtedness  to  the  great  scientific  professions 
which  have  done  so  much  to  make  life  comfortable,  and  there  has 
come  to  him  a  full  realization  that  the  world's  work  requires  educated 
men  of  many  kinds,  that  the  great  business  of  the  nations  of  the 
present  day  is  industry  and  that  art,  literature,  and  the  finer  things 
for  which  he  stands,  can  flourish  and  bloom  only  when  industry 
prospers  and  educated  men  guide  our  great  industrial  interests. 


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And  the  engineering  student  looking  southward  sees  in  such 
buildings  as  Goldwin  Smith  Hall  a  perpetual  reminder  that  man 
does  not  live  by  bread  alone,  but  that  there  are  many  other  studies, 
besides  those  bringing  financial  returns,  which  will  bring  him  rich 
and  enduring  rewards  and  of  whose  very  existence  he  may  never 
have  known,  but  for  their  representation  on  his  much  beloved 
Campus. 

It  is  to  a  large  extent  because  of  this  broad  educational  environ- 
ment that  graduates  of  Sibley  College  are  found  in  such  large  numbers 
in  teaching  positions  and  wherever  important  industrial  work  is 
being  done,  and  the  dedication  of  this  building  is  an  added  assurance 
that  the  theories  on  which  the  University  was  founded  are  sound, 
and  that  the  principles  for  which  it  stands  before  the  world  are  to  be 
fully  and  fittingly  maintained. 

If  it  were  mistakenly  assumed  that  the  purely  engineering  record 
of  Sibley  College,  however  meritorious  in  itself,  is  the  measure  of 
its  usefulness,  and  there  were  excluded  from  the  appraisal  the  value 
of  social  and  educational  contact  of  its  students  with  the  large  body 
of  other  students  pursuing  diversified  lines  of  study  and  research, 
its  merit  would  not  be  worthily  distinguished  in  any  important 
respect  from  that  due  other  institutions  devoted  solely  to  vocational 
instruction.  Mechanical  Engineering  deals  so  specifically  with 
material  things  and  necessarily  embraces  so  much  that  is  definitely 
expressed,  both  in  quantities  and  qualities,  that  its  sole  pursuit 
tends  to  stagnate  rather  than  stimulate  imagination.  Merely  a 
limited  contact  with  affairs  which  require  the  active  participation 
of  the  mechanical  engineer,  is  necessary  to  develop  a  realizing  sense 
of  his  increased  over-all  competency  which  results  from  association 
with  those  pursuing  the  broader  paths  of  mental  development. 
This  view,  reached  as  the  result  of  extended  experience  in  directing 
productive  activities  of  substantial  magnitude  in  which  the  trained 
mechanical  engineer  has  been  a  dominant  factor,  does  not  reflect 
upon  the  value  of  vocational  instruction,  but  rather  testifies  that  in 
proportion  as  his  scientific  training  as  an  engineer  has  been  aug- 
mented by  knowledge  of  social,  economic,  and  governmental  prob- 
lems, and  above  all  by  the  acquirement  of  a  correct  and  comprehensive 
understanding  of  the  motives,  actions,  and  reactions  of  human  nature, 
he  is  the  better  equipped  for  the  higher  duties  of  life  in  whatever 
field  of  activity  and  endeavor  his  interests  or  the  demands  of  society 
may  place  him.     I  trust  I  will  not  be  suspected  of  invidious  sug- 


THE   DEDICATION   OF   RAND   HALL  II 

gestion  in  imagining  that  the  engineering  training  of  a  mind,  natur- 
ally possessed  of  sound  engineering  instincts,  can  be  included  as  an 
important  element  in  the  complete  mental  equipment  of  those  who 
are  effectively  and  beneficently  to  influence  the  larger  affairs  of  life. 
The  engineer  should  not  permit  himself  to  mistakenly  suppose  that, 
because  of  the  somewhat  special  and  exacting  nature  of  his  pro- 
fession, he  can  escape,  or  is  excused  from  any  of  the  responsibilities 
of  good  citizenship.  The  requirements  of  the  case  are  quite  the 
reverse,  for  the  very  character  of  his  profession,  demanding  accurate 
reasoning  from  correctly  ascertained  premises,  should  the  more 
readily  aid  him  in  distinguishing  between  sound,  and  specious  or 
false  doctrines  in  our  social  and  political  affairs.  He  is  therefore 
equipped  intelligently  to  propose  and  to  urge  the  adoption  of  im- 
proving and  corrective  measures,  and  to  be  wise  in  determining  how 
far  assumed  improvement  may  be  carried  without  incurring  the 
danger  of  disaster  in  attempting  more  in  the  direction  of  human 
advancement  than  enlightened  and  correctly  informed  public  senti- 
ment will  sanction  or  support. 

We  may  therefore,  in  general  terms,  assume  that  comprehensive- 
ness and  co-relation  were  the  broader  considerations,  basic  in  charac- 
ter, upon  which  this  institution  was  founded  and  which  are  essential 
to  the  great  end  to  be  achieved.  But  if  less  important  in  the  grand 
scheme,  I  find  it  pleasant  and  profitable  in  connection  with  the 
matter  here  in  hand,  to  speculate  as  to  which  were  the  particular 
activities  in  this  institution,  that  most  directly  and  strongly  ap- 
pealed to  Mr.  Cornell.  When  we  bring  to  mind  the  nature  of  his 
associations  in  the  practical  affairs  of  life,  we  cannot  be  wide  of  the 
mark  if  we  suspect  that  in  the  field  of  Mechanic  Arts  and  Agriculture, 
he  vividly  realized  the  great  need  and  opportunity  for  educational 
effort  and  facilities  of  a  kind  not  theretofore  obtainable  except  upon 
a  very  limited  scale,  and  that  therefore  these  particular  branches 
became  objects  of  his  special  solicitude.  He  well  knew  that  under 
the  guidance  of  Andrew  D.  White,  the  academic  side  of  the  problem 
was  to  be  safely  cared  for,  but  creative  effort  in  an  almost  virgin 
field  was  called  for  in  Mechanics  and  Agriculture,  and  the  path  of 
procedure  remained  to  be  largely  developed  by  experience. 

If  I  have  not  misapprehended  the  nature  of  Mr.  Cornell's  interest 
in  these  particular  branches  of  education,  then  we  have  another 
example  of  his  long-range  wisdom  in  thus  early  identifying  their 
great  importance,  now  evidenced  by  the  relative  proportions  that 


12  THE   DEDICATION   OF   RAND   HALL 

the  Departments  of  Mechanic  Arts  and  Agriculture  bear  to  the 
other  departments  of  the  University.  It  must  have  been  a  source 
of  intense  gratification  to  him  when  Mr.  Sibley  generously  con- 
tributed the  substantial  aid  necessary  to  give  impulse  to  the  starting 
efforts  of  the  Department,  and  we  rejoice  that  he  lived  long  enough 
to  realize  that  his  highest  hopes  of  its  usefulness  were  to  be  far  sur- 
passed, as  moving  on,  with  accumulated  energy,  under  the  fostering 
care  and  guidance  of  Professors  Morris  and  Sweet,  and  Directors 
Thurston  and  Smith,  and  with  the  hearty  support  of  every  other 
department  of  the  University,  it  has  reached  its  present  magnificent 
proportions  in  efficiency  and  achievement. 

It  would  indeed  be  interesting  to  know  to  what  an  extent  the 
Founder  realized  the  gigantic  proportions  which  engineering  science 
would  attain  in  half  a  century.  His  intimate  acquaintance  with 
the  beginnings  of  electrical  transmission  of  energy  must  have  given 
him  some  idea  of  the  vastness  of  the  problems  waiting  to  be  solved; 
and  it  is  more  than  likely  that  he  foresaw  in  some  measure  this  great 
growth,  and  perhaps  some  of  the  vital  social  problems  which  have 
arisen  in  connection  with  our  great  manufacturing  and  engineering 
enterprises,  and  which  are  now  reacting  upon  the  work  of  our  educa- 
tional institutions. 

The  simple  methods  and  processes  of  our  forefathers  have  passed 
away  forever  and  with  their  passing  has  come  the  most  complex 
industrial  organization,  physical  and  personal,  the  world  has  ever 
seen.  To  prepare  young  men  to  enter  this  field  is  no  simple  matter, 
and  the  shop  methods  in  use  in  the  early  days  of  Sibley  College  no 
longer  suffice.  Not  only  must  the  prospective  industrial  worker  know 
something  of  simple  shop  processes  and  methods,  but  he  must  know 
something  of  the  complicated  financial  and  manufacturing  principles 
on  which  the  industrial  structure  rests.  He  must  know  something 
of  the  complex  personal  relations  which  these  new  methods  involve, 
and  be  prepared  as  never  before,  to  take  his  place  in  the  world  of 
men  with  high  ideals  of  service  to  humanity  and  with  a  full  appre- 
ciation of  his  duties  as  an  engineer  and  as  a  citizen. 

The  perfecting  of  methods  of  instruction  looking  to  these  ends  is 
now  here  made  possible  as  never  before  by  the  opening  of  this  build- 
ing and  it  is  gratifying  indeed  that  the  spirit  of  the  old  Mechanic 
Arts  Department  is  to  have  a  new  temple  where,  refreshed  and 
strengthened,  it  will  be  able  to  meet  and  solve  these  new  and  difficult 
problems  reflected  from  the  practical  field. 


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The  task  of  building  up  this  great  engineering  college  has  not  been 
a  light  one,  and  the  demands  upon  the  funds  of  the  University  to 
supply  equipment  and  room,  indispensable  to  efficient  administration 
of  the  College,  have  been  greater  than  could  be  met,  with  due  and 
just  regard  for  other  departments  of  the  University.  So  it  has 
naturally  and  regrettably  come  about  that  while  spiritually  speaking, 
conditions  are  eminently  sound,  the  corporeal  state  is  much  less 
satisfactory,  particularly  when  compared  with  what  will  be  found  at 
some  of  the  other  engineering  educational  institutions.  This  weak- 
ness has  been  particularly  true  of  the  shops  and  laboratories  of  the 
College  and  it  is  unnecessary  to  enlarge  upon  the  fact  that  as  a 
result,  there  has  gradually  developed  a  serious  situation  tending 
to  affect  unfavorably  the  future  usefulness  and  reputation  of  the 
Mechanic  Arts  Department,  due  chiefly  to  inadequate  housing. 
That  such  a  tendency  should  continue  would  be  most  deplorable, 
especially  when  its  direct  cause  is  the  excellent  service  this  College 
has  rendered  under  adverse  conditions  in  creating  a  demand  for  more 
of  its  products  than  it  can  supply  and  still  maintain  quality.  Quality 
is  to  be  maintained  at  any  cost.  To  go  on  in  this  direction  would 
amount  to  the  penalizing  of  competency. 

This  regrettable  state  of  affairs,  so  long  a  matter  of  growing 
solicitude  —  particularly  to  those  more  intimately  acquainted  with  the 
facts  of  the  situation  —  is  now  about  to  be  substantially  alleviated, 
for  we  are  gathered  here  to-day  to  receive  from  Mrs.  Lang  and  to 
dedicate  to  the  uses  of  Sibley  College,  Rand  Hall,  a  splendid  and 
commodious  structure  that  will  greatly  relieve  the  congested  condi- 
tion now  existing,  and  form  an  important  part  of  a  comprehensive 
plan  which,  when  completed,  will  fully  meet  all  reasonable  require- 
ments. 

I  now  desire  you  to  note  that  this  ceremony  is  distinctive  in  that 
it  conveys  a  benefaction  which  will  largely  aid  in  preserving  from 
deterioration  the  vital  spirit  that  has,  from  the  beginning,  been  the 
source  and  incentive  from  which  has  emanated  so  much  that  is 
admirable  in  this  department,  a  department  that,  I  wish  to  think, 
possessed  the  special  interest  of  Ezra  Cornell  because  his  early  train- 
ing had  impressed  upon  him  not  only  its  great  utility,  but  its  great 
necessity.  This  interest,  however,  in  no  sense  diminished  his 
high  estimate  of  the  value  of  a  liberal  education.  It  marks  an  event 
of  conservation,  and  as  such  I  rank  it  as  superior  to  one  that  would 
be  inspired  by  expansion.     No  just  demand  can  be  made  upon  us  for 


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a  volume  of  educational  output  not  warranted  by  a  proper  regard 
for  financial  limitations,  but  we  have  already  created  a  responsibility 
for  the  delivery  of  a  certain  minimum  of  educational  product  of 
maximum  quality  that  must  be  honorably  fulfilled. 

I  cannot  adequately  touch  upon  the  other  distinction  of  this  occa- 
sion, as  it  demands  a  facility  of  expression  I  do  not  possess.  Mrs. 
Lang  will  believe  me  when  I  say  that  there  is  a  quality  conveyed 
with  her  most  generous  gift  that  will  ever  enshrine  high  regard  and 
the  utmost  respect  in  the  hearts  of  all  Cornellians,  for  herself  and  those 
she  has  honored  in  the  naming  of  Rand  Hall,  for  it  is  a  woman's 
tribute  to  an  art  absolutely  dominated  by  men,  and  this  unique 
and  gracious  feature  will  render  it  the  more  precious  and  stimulating 
to  all  concerned  in  administering  or  receiving  education  in  Cornell 
University.  Our  expressions  of  gratitude  to  her  include  a  full 
recognition  and  appreciation  of  the  unusual,  as  well  as  the  very 
valuable  and  timely  nature  of  her  gift. 

The  President: 

Mr.  Westinghouse,  whose  excellent  address  you  have  just  heard, 
may  be  regarded  as  a  representative  of  the  old  students  and  alumni 
of  Sibley  College  who  engage  in  practical  business.  There  is,  how- 
ever, another  group  who  are  engaged  in  investigation,  in  education, 
and  in  writing.  This  class  is  represented  on  the  present  occasion 
by  Mr.  Frederick  Arthur  Halsey,  '78,  who  will  now  address  you. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  FREDERICK  ARTHUR  HALSEY 

Mr.  President,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 

To  a  Sibley  alumnus  of  the  early  days,  this  occasion  is  primarily 
one  of  reminiscence.  My  thoughts  go  back  to  the  time  when  techni- 
cal education  was  a  new  and  untried  thing,  and  not  only  new  and 
untried,  but  looked  upon  with  skepticism  and  even  aversion,  when 
the  Sibley  shop  and  its  students  in  overalls  were  objects  of  amused 
interest  to  academic  visitors,  whose  educational  horizon  took  in 
nothing  beyond  a  classical  education,  and  of  scarcely  less  amused 
interest  to  manufacturers  and  business  men  who  could  see  no  value 
in  systematic  training  for  careers  similar  to  their  own. 

Those  of  us  who  formed  the  early  classes  in  Sibley  know  better 
than  those  of  to-day  can  ever  know,  the  scant  sympathy  with  which 
this  educational  movement  was  received.  The  graduate  of  to-day 
may  not  always  find  the  door  of  employment  wide  open  for  him, 
but  he  is  at  least  spared  the  supercilious  air  of  superiority  with  which 
the  proffer  of  the  services  of  the  early  graduates  was  too  often  re- 
jected. In  all  the  history  of  technical  education,  nothing  is  more 
strange  than  this  universal  skepticism  on  the  part  of  those  who, 
as  it  now  seems,  should  have  been  the  first  to  recognize  that  there 
was  a  vast,  unworked  educational  field,  capable  of  producing  such 
a  crop  as  no  other  that  then  lay  fallow. 

And  this  side  of  the  picture  serves  only  to  throw  into  stronger 
relief  the  other  side,  where  we  see  the  figures  of  those  whom  we 
must  now  regard  as  prophets.  And  first  of  these  is  the  father  of 
technical  education  in  this  country,  the  author  of  the  land  grant 
bill,  Senator  Morrill.  The  experience  of  the  early  graduates  serves 
only  to  emphasize  this  foresight,  for  it  came  some  fifteen  years 
after  the  passage  of  the  law  making  Agriculture  and  the  Mechanic 
Arts  leading  branches  in  the  projected  chain  of  state  universities. 

It  is  impossible  to  project  ourselves  backward  and  to  reproduce 
the  atmosphere  of  that  time  with  sufficient  effectiveness  to  realize 
adequately  the  prophetic  foresight  of  that  measure  or  the  great- 
ness of  the  mind  responsible  for  it,  but  we  early  students  can  come 
nearer  to  it  than  others,  for  we  had  good  personal  experiences  to  show 
us  how  far  it  led  the  conceptions  of  others. 

And  as  we  thus  recognize  the  prophetic  conception  of  coming 
needs  by  one  in  the  affairs  of  public  life,  we  must  not  fail  to  couple 


1 6  THE   DEDICATION   OF  RAND   HALL 

with  him  those  who,  catching  a  vision  of  the  future,  seized  the  op- 
portunity afforded  by  Senator  Morrill's  measure.  Of  these  prophets, 
Cornell  University  had  three;  its  founder,  whose  largeness  of  vision 
is  perpetuated  in  the  seal  of  the  University,  its  first  president,  who 
moulded  its  plan  and  scope,  and  the  founder  of  Sibley  College, 
whose  name  it  bears. 

No  retrospect  of  this  kind  can  fail  to  compare  the  feeble  beginnings 
of  this  movement  with  its  present  noble  stature,  and  the  building 
that  we  are  here  to  dedicate  supplies  a  gauge  of  progress  which 
all  can  see.  This  is  to  be  a  shop  building  and  we  have  but  to  com- 
pare it  with  the  Sibley  shop  of  the  70 's.  That  early  shop  was  housed 
in  the  west  room  of  what  we  must  now  call  the  original  Sibley  build- 
ing, and  I  am  bound  to  say  that,  even  in  those  seemingly  narrow 
quarters,  there  was  no  crowding,  either  of  equipment  or  of  students. 
Small  as  the  quarters  were,  I  distinctly  remember  that  there  was 
more  than  sufficient  room  to  accommodate  the  students. 

And  this  leads  me  to  a  personal  note.  Those  of  us  who  came  in 
those  early  days,  scarcely  knowing  why,  or  what  sort  of  life  was 
here  to  be  opened  to  us,  who  came  because  here  was  offered  some- 
thing that,  untried  and  unknown  as  it  was,  was  nevertheless  some- 
thing that  appealed  to  us  as  being  what  we  wanted,  we  have  the  large 
satisfaction  of  feeling,  that  we  too,  in  a  small  way,  were  pioneers 
in  a  great  movement,  and  I  say  this  with  less  hesitation  because 
some  of  us,  at  least,  found  the  path  far  from  smooth. 

And  this  is  far  from  the  only  satisfaction  that  we  have.  This 
audience  is  composed  largely  of  students  who,  after  the  manner  of 
their  kind,  may  need  a  word  of  caution.  By  excellent  authority 
we  are  told  to  despise  not  the  day  of  small  things,  and  the  student 
who  imagines,  because  the  equipment  is  larger  and  the  student 
body  more  numerous,  that  more  earnest  work  is  being  done  on  this 
campus  to-day  than  was  done  here  thirty-five  years  ago,  needs  to 
have  that  impression  corrected.  Perhaps  I  can  give  my  own  ap- 
preciation and  estimate  of  that  work  no  better  than  by  repeating 
what  I  said  to  the  students  at  Columbia  last  winter  —  that  they 
were  going  to  get  a  lot  of  second  hand  teaching  handed  down  from 
Professor  Sweet,  and  I  am  bound  to  say  that,  of  what  they  got  from 
me,  the  best  was  that  same  second  hand  assortment. 

This  building  is  to  stand  as  a  memorial  to  the  brothers,  Jasper  R. 
Rand  and  Addison  C.  Rand,  and  Jasper  R.  Rand,  jr.,  and  because 
of  my  association  in  business  with  these  brothers,  I  have  been  asked 
to  say  something  about  their  personalities  and  their  work. 


THE    DEDICATION   OF   RAND    HALL  17 

Someone  has  said  that  the  only  way  to  know  a  man  is  to  work 
for  him.  If  this  be  true,  I  ought  to  have  known  these  brothers, 
for  I  was  in  their  service  for  a  period  of  twenty  years  —  fifteen  years 
actively  and  five  years  more  in  a  consulting  capacity. 

First  let  me  say  that  they  were  brothers,  by  which  I  mean,  not 
only  sons  of  the  same  parents,  but  brothers  in  every  best  sense  of 
that  word.  Associated  in  business  throughout  their  business  lives, 
the  mutuality  of  their  interests,  their  mutual  forbearance,  and  their 
manifest  mutual  regard,  were  perhaps  the  most  striking  features  of 
their  association. 

Of  them  I  knew  the  younger,  Addison  C.  Rand,  far  better  than  the 
elder,  Jasper  R.  Rand.  The  mechanical  side  of  their  business,  which 
ultimately  dominated,  was  the  outgrowth  of  a  previous  business  in 
high  explosives.  The  elder  brother  was  in  charge  of  this  older 
branch,  while  the  mechanical  side  with  which  I  was  exclusively 
connected,  was  in  the  hands  of  the  younger  brother.  Moreover, 
for  many  of  the  last  years  of  his  life  the  elder  brother  was  not  in 
robust  health,  and  this,  with  the  growing  predominance  of  the 
mechanical  work,  led  to  his  gradual  withdrawal  from  active  manage- 
ment. But  no  one  who  ever  came  in  contact  with  Jasper  R.  Rand, 
can  forget  his  genial  spirit,  ready  wit,  and  quickness  of  repartee. 

Of  the  son,  I  knew  even  less  than  of  his  father.  During  my 
active  days  at  the  office  he  was  but  a  lad,  and  as  he  grew  to  man- 
hood after  I  had  gone  elsewhere,  I  naturally  saw  but  little  of  him. 
On  this  hill  he  was  better  known  than  I  knew  him,  for  he  was  a 
Sibley  graduate.  It  is  doubtless  known  here  that  at  the  outbreak 
of  the  war  with  Spain  he  enlisted  with  the  First  New  York  Volunteer 
Engineers  with  whom  he  saw  service  in  Porto  Rico.  There  he  con- 
tracted typhoid  fever  from  which,  however,  he  happily  recovered. 

The  death  of  his  father  and  uncle  placed  heavy  responsibilities 
on  his  young  shoulders,  which  he  was  just  learning  to  carry  when 
his  untimely  death  cut  short  a  business  career  of  greater  promise 
and  opportunity  than  any  I  have  ever  personally  known. 

The  work  which  these  brothers  did  was,  of  course,  the  develop- 
ment of  the  rock  drill  and  air  compressor  —  the  latter  at  the  beginning 
being  essentially  an  adjunct  of  the  former.  The  rock  drill  had  its 
real  beginning  at  the  Hoosac  Tunnel  which  was  driven  by  the  Bur- 
leigh drill.  Another,  still  older  brother,  Albert  T.  Rand,  had  been 
the  moving  spirit  in  establishing  the  Laflin  and  Rand  Powder  Com- 
pany, and  to  this  company  came  plans  for  a  rock  drill  intended  as  a 


18  THE   DEDICATION    OF   RAND  HALL 

competitor  of  the  Burleigh,  which  was  then  the  only  commercial 
machine.  Addison  C.  Rand's  already  demonstrated  mechanical 
ability  led  his  brother  to  turn  the  investigation  of  this  machine  over 
to  him,  and  the  result  was  a  condemnation  of  it. 

Knowing  as  we  now  do  the  requirements  of  these  machines,  it  is 
easy  to  see  that  Mr.  Rand's  foresight  was  as  sound  as  is  our  hind- 
sight. I  never  knew  the  circumstances  under  which  the  machine 
with  which  they  later  became  identified,  was  brought  to  his  attention 
but  the  subsequent  history  of  that  machine  and  the  magnificent 
business  of  which  it  was  the  foundation,  show  that  Mr.  Rand's 
judgment  was  as  sound  in  accepting  the  one  as  in  rejecting  the  other, 
and  these  two  incidents  point  out  his  most  striking  characteristic — 
unfailing  judgment,  not  only  of  things  but  of  men. 

It  is  of  course  the  nature  of  education  to  glorify  intellect  and 
perhaps  before  this  audience,  I  shall  say  an  unpopular  thing  when 
I  say  that,  as  I  see  the  affairs  of  men,  it  is  not  intellect  that  moves 
the  world,  but  judgment  —  that  quality,  akin  to  instinct,  that  guides 
us  when  all  rules  fail,  that  knows  what  to  do  and  what  not  to  do, 
when  to  act,  and  when  not  to  act.  It  was  this  quality,  which,  with 
one  other,  preeminently  characterized  Mr.  Rand,  the  other  being 
patience — limitless  patience,  willingness  to  wait,  with  faith  in  the 
outcome. 

Perhaps  no  machine  that  ever  came  from  the  brain  and  hand  of 
man  is  less  indebted  to  the  engineering  practice  of  its  time  than  the 
rock  drill.  It  was  only  partly  a  matter  of  invention,  though  the 
inventive  problems  were  serious  enough.  Behind  all  such  problems, 
was  the  all  pervading  problem  of  material,  and  in  the  solution  of 
this  problem,  less  than  no  help  was  to  be  had.  It  was  not  that  there 
were  no  guides.  There  were  guides  in  plenty,  but  they  all  pointed 
in  the  wrong  direction,  and  the  more  an  effort  was  made  to  do  what 
prevailing  practice  said  was  right,  the  worse  were  the  results. 

I  do  not  intend  to  convert  this  address  into  a  lecture  on  materials 
suitable  for  resisting  shock.  Nevertheless,  the  solution  of  this 
problem  is  the  large  contribution  of  these  men  to  general  engineering 
progress.  As  such  it  ought  to  be  explained,  and  certainly  before  this 
audience  and  under  the  Sibley  dome,  one  may  mention  these  things 
even  though  they  might  be  inappropriate  elsewhere. 

The  rock  drill  is,  of  course,  primarily,  a  machine  for  resisting  shock, 
with  the  added  feature  of  portability.  Minimum  weight  being  es- 
sential, when  parts  break,  the  rock  drill  designer  is  denied  the  com- 


THE   DEDICATION   OF   RAND   HALL  19 

mon  recourse  of  making  them  larger.  His  only  recourse  is  to  find  a 
more  suitable  material.  Moreover,  in  the  early  days,  the  solution 
was  never  complete,  for  in  constant  pursuit  was  the  demon  of  higher 
pressure.  When  the  machines  had  been  made  to  stand  up  fairly 
well,  under  60  pounds  air  pressure,  the  users  promptly  raised  the 
pressure  to  70  pounds  —  and  so  to  80  and  to  90,  and  what  figures 
have  now  been  reached  I  do  not  know. 

This  problem  of  material  was  thus  fundamental  and,  in  solving 
it,  all  tradition  had  to  be  broken  and  "sound  practice",  as  then 
understood,  had  to  be  discarded,  because  such  practice  was  ab- 
solutely wrong,  and  in  solving  it  the  Rand  brothers  taught  the 
engineering  world  a  lesson  that  made  it  their  lasting  debtor. 

Thirty  years  ago  nothing  was  more  firmly  grounded  in  engineering 
practice  than  the  idea  that  the  proper  material  to  resist  shock  was 
low  carbon,  ductile  steel.  High  carbon  steel  was  looked  upon  as 
brittle  and  low  carbon  steel  as  tough,  and  able  to  stand  punishment. 
But  a  single  word  had  been  said  against  this  view.  Mr.  Metcalf 
of  the  Crescent  Steel  Works  had  related  what  was  considered  an 
anomalous  and  inexplicable  experience  with  the  high  carbon  steel 
piston  rod  of  a  steam  hammer,  which  had  shown  a  much  longer  life 
than  the  low  carbon  rods  which  were  then  customary,  but  the  experi- 
ence had  passed  almost  unnoticed. 

Looking  back,  with  the  superior  wisdom  that  comes  after  the 
event,  this  traditional  view  now  seems  absurd.  It  is  now  clear  that 
what  is  wanted  is  a  material  that  will  absorb  and  give  back  again 
the  greatest  number  of  foot  pounds  of  energy  without  change  of  form; 
that  is,  without  passing  its  elastic  limit.  That  is  to  say,  the  property 
wanted  is  resilience  and  not  toughness.  In  other  words,  we  should 
aim  at  the  properties  of  a  spring  and  not  at  those  of  a  piece  of  lead, 
which  is  equivalent  to  saying  that  we  want  high  and  not  low  carbon 
steel. 

All  this  being  then  unknown,  it  had  to  be  learned  and  put  in 
practice  in  the  face  of  a  universally  established  precedent;  and  the 
process  of  leaving  it  was  heartbreaking.  But  for  the  supreme  quality 
of  patience,  which  I  have  mentioned,  the  work  must  have  been 
abandoned.  The  first  lesson  was  learned  by  subjecting  to  repeated 
and  violent  shock  the  piece  called  the  rocker  pin,  a  steel  pin  the  size  of 
one's  little  finger.  Formerly  the  operator  would  begin  his  day's  work 
with  a  pocket  full  of  these  pins  to  replace  those  broken,  expecting  to 
bring  back  but  few  of  them  at  the  close  of  the  day.     The  correct 


20  THE   DEDICATION   OF   RAND    HALL 

material  was  found  as  the  result  of  an  aimless  trial  of  every  material 
that  offered,  the  final  selection  being  a  special  imported  high  carbon 
steel.  No  one  had  then  the  courage  to  suggest  that  the  results 
were  due  to  the  high  carbon  percentage.  They  were  believed  to  lie 
in  some  mysterious  property  of  this  special  steel  and  the  lesson  went 
no  further. 

Another  piece  —  the  rocker  —  had,  more  by  accident  than  other- 
wise, been  reasonably  successful,  but  all  at  once  it  began  to  break  all 
over  the  country,  and  every  machine  tool  in  the  Rand  shop  that  could 
make  rockers  was  put  to  making  them.  The  defective  rocker  material 
had  been  ordered  from  a  different  mill  from  that  which  furnished  the 
previous  supply,  and  without  adequate  specifications.  A  steel  of  lower 
carbon  than  that  previously  used,  had  been  supplied,  and  with  these 
results.  If  you  feel  like  criticizing  the  absence  of  specifications  as 
savoring  of  loose  practice,  remember  that  there  was  not  then  an 
engineer  in  the  country — except  perhaps  Mr.  Metcalf — who  could 
have  written  a  specification  for  the  right  material.  Under  these 
circumstances  the  fewer  specifications  we  had  the  better. 

This  matter  was  set  right  by  testing,  on  Dr.  Thurston's  auto- 
graphic torsion  testing  machine,  the  new  steel  and  a  fragment  of 
the  last  billet  of  the  old  which,  luckily,  had  escaped  oblivion  in  the 
scrap  heap.  Then  the  truth  began  to  dawn.  The  test  showed  the 
old  steel  to  be  of  high  and  the  new  of  low  carbon. 

I  might  detail  other  experiences  of  the  same  kind  but  that  would 
accomplish  nothing.  I  cannot,  however,  give  you  an  adequate  idea 
of  the  situation  while  this  condition  lasted.  Perhaps  the  most 
trying  of  all  these  experiences  was  the  second  Croton  aqueduct  of 
New  York  City,  then  a  new  construction,  where  the  piston  rods  began 
to  break  in  wholesale  manner  as  the  rockers  had  done  before.  The 
aqueduct  was  divided  into  two  sections,  which  were  under  different 
contractors,  one  section  being  equipped  with  Rand,  and  the  other 
with  Ingersoll  machinery.  I  doubt  if  there  was  ever  a  keener  and 
more  relentless  rivalry  than  existed  between  these  two  companies 
at  that  time,  and  we  had  every  reason  to  know  that  their  piston  rods 
did  not  break.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  they  had  as  much  trouble  with 
compressors  as  we  had  with  drills,  but  that  we  did  not  know  until  too 
late  to  get  comfort,  let  alone  compensating  advantage. 

All  this  is  but  to  point  out  those  qualities  of  judgment  and  of 
patience  of  which  I  have  spoken,  the  former  manifested  here  in 
breaking  with  a  practice  which  had  the  sanction  of  every  authority. 


THE    DEDICATION   OF   RAND   HALL  21 

I  well  remember  the  keenness  of  Mr.  Rand's  analysis,  in  the  face  of 
everything  published,  when  the  accumulation  of  facts  and  experience 
had  gone  far  enough  to  point  out  the  principle  that  lay  beneath  them, 
and  the  conclusion  that  in  its  precepts  the  engineering  world  was 
wrong. 

This  phase  of  his  character,  I  hope  I  have  made  reasonably  clear 
but  the  bearing  of  these  experiences  upon  that  other  phase  —  his 
limitless  patience — is  beyond  me.  Only  those  who  have  been  through 
similar  experiences  in  founding  a  pioneer  business  can  appreciate  it. 
To  bring  back  the  business  rivalry  of  the  times,  the  manner  in  which 
this  rivalry  was  utilized  by  impatient  customers  and  by  others,  to 
whom  stronger  words  might  apply,  to  explain  the  load  of  anxiety 
to  which  all  this  led,  and  the  unfaltering  faith  with  which  it  was  all 
carried,  this  I  cannot  do  in  any  manner  that  seems  worth  attempting. 
But  it  all  had  its  reward  in  ultimate  success  and  in  another  outcome, 
which  to  both  these  brothers  was,  I  believe,  of  greater  value  than 
business  success.  I  mean  the  spirit  of  absolute  loyalty  and  devotion 
on  the  part  of  their  entire  body  of  employees  which  I  have  never 
seen  equalled  and  which,  at  the  end,  was  rewarded  in  a  manner  that 
showed  how  profoundly  it  was  appreciated. 

In  view  of  it  all,  what  an  appropriate  memorial  this  is.  A 
building  of  lasting  usefulness  in  the  high  cause  of  education;  more 
specifically,  a  building  for  a  school  of  engineering  provided  from 
funds  accumulated  in  an  engineering  business;  and  more  specifi- 
cally still,  a  building  for  a  university  machine  shop,  provided  from 
funds  accumulated  through  the  work  of  a  machine  shop.  It  seems 
to  me  the  donor  has  been  singularly  fortunate  in  her  selection  of  a 
memorial,  and  that  those  in  whose  name  it  stands  could  have  made 
no  better  choice.  Could  they  have  foreseen  this,  as  one  of  the  out- 
comes of  a  lifetime  of  trial,  it  could  only  have  been  another  recom- 
pense for  those  trials. 

The  President: 

The  speakers  who  have  already  addressed  you  have  been  notified 
in  advance  of  the  call  to  be  made  upon  them;  and  though  the  inter- 
val for  preparation  was  short  they  have  nevertheless  had  time  enough 
to  write  the  addresses  to  which  you  have  now  listened.  The  next 
speaker  had  no  notice  until  a  quarter  of  an  hour  before  these  exercises 
that  a  speech  would  be  expected.     When  I  add  that  the  victim  is  a 


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lady  I  hope  that  you  will  not  regard  this  treatment  of  her  as  another 
example  of  the  world-old  discrimination  against  women.  On  the 
contrary,  I  call  on  the  lady  in  question  because  she  is  the  center  of 
our  present  interest  and  the  primary  cause  of  our  present  celebration. 
These  exercises  would  lack  their  proper  climax  without  some  words 
from  the  generous  donor  of  Rand  Hall.  I  call  on  Mrs.  Florence 
Rand  Lang,  whom  I  have  now  the  great  pleasure  of  introducing  to 
you. 


ADDRESS  OF  MRS.  FLORENCE  RAND  LANG 

Mr.  President,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 

My  first  visit  to  Cornell  University  was  made  nineteen  years  ago 
and  scarcely  a  year  has  passed  without  my  returning  here.  For  a 
number  of  years,  we  spent  the  entire  summer  at  our  cottage  on  the 
west  shore  of  Cayuga  Lake  and  I  am  afraid  I  tired  out  many  visitors 
by  insisting  upon  showing  them  all  the  interesting  things  to  be  found 
on  this  Campus.  During  all  this  time  I  have  been  familiar  with  the 
Sibley  shops  and  with  the  work  done  in  them. 

If  I  had  been  a  man  I  would  have  been  at  work  in  them  myself. 
I  have  seen  the  College  grow  and  outgrow  the  shops,  and  so  it  is  a 
great  satisfaction  to  me  that  the  opportunity  has  been  offered  for 
me  to  provide  this  new  one. 

Now  that  the  building  is  completed,  it  is  with  great  pleasure  that 
I  hand  to  the  honorable  President  of  Cornell  University  the  key  of 
Rand  Hall. 

The  President: 

It  is  with  much  gratification,  Mrs.  Lang,  that  I  receive  from  you 
this  key  of  Rand  Hall.  On  behalf  of  Cornell  University  I  thank 
you  once  more  for  your  generous  and  timely  gift  which  has  brought 
relief  and  encouragement  to  a  very  important  department  of  Sibley 
College.  I  now  hand  the  key  to  Director  Smith,  who  has  I  think, 
something  to  say  about  the  function  of  the  building  in  the  larger 
work  to  which  Sibley  College  is  now  called. 


ADDRESS  OF  DIRECTOR  ALBERT  WILLIAM  SMITH 

Mr.  President,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 

It  gives  me  great  personal  pleasure  to  receive  this  key  of  Rand 
Hall  and  to  give  to  you,  Mrs.  Lang,  the  heartfelt  thanks  of  the  Faculty 
and  students  of  Sibley  College  for  this  generous  and  beneficent  gift. 

I  believe  that  this  ceremony  means  far  more  than  the  addition  of 
a  building  to  our  working  equipment.  I  believe  that  it  opens  a  new 
era  in  the  history  of  the  College. 

Long  ago  Mr.  Cornell  and  Mr.  White  —  who  happily  is  with  us 
to-day  —  and  Mr.  Hiram  Sibley,  with  wonderful  foresight,  appreciated 
the  future  needs  of  this  country  for  trained  engineers,  and  Sibley 
College  was  established.  Then  came  the  era  of  beginnings:  when 
Professor  Morris  was  in  charge,  and  when  Professor  Sweet  was  here 
with  his  inspiring  personality  to  influence  young  men  toward  high 
ideals  of  engineering  and  of  life. 

Then  Doctor  Thurston  came,  with  his  energy,  his  international 
reputation,  and  his  progressiveness,  inaugurating  the  era  of  develop- 
ment, when  the  reputation  of  Sibley  College  became  such  that  able, 
earnest  young  men  the  world  over  wished  to  come  here  to  study,  and 
when  the  students  increased  from  a  mere  handful  to  a  thousand  strong. 

Then  under  the  present  Faculty  came  the  era  of  internal  develop- 
ment, with  the  increase  and  strengthening  of  the  faculty,  with  im- 
provement of  the  course,  and  the  perfecting  of  details  of  administra- 
tion. This  work  is  well  nigh  done,  and  now  this  good  friend  has  met 
our  urgent  need  with  the  gift  of  this  building  which,  through  the 
effort  and  ability  of  Mr.  Gibb,  is  not  only  beautiful,  but  perfectly 
adapted  to  its  uses. 

This  building  has  set  a  worthy  standard  for  the  future  develop- 
ment of  the  College,  and  I  confidently  prophesy  that,  following  this 
architectural  standard,  the  near  future  will  see  a  new  Mechanical 
Laboratory  on  the  site  of  the  old  Machine  Shop,  an  Electrical  Labora- 
tory on  the  site  of  the  old  Mechanical  Laboratory,  and,  where  the 
University  repair  shop  now  stands,  will  rise  a  building  for  advanced 
research  where  important  additions  may  be  made  to  the  data  of 
engineering,  where  the  crowning  work  of  Sibley  College  may  be  done. 

When  this  prophecy  shall  have  been  fulfilled,  the  material  equip- 
ment will  be  complete  for  the  new  era  in  Sibley  College  that  opens 
with  the  opening  of  Rand  Hall.  Thus  we  see  the  high  significance 
of  this  ceremony  to-day,  and  the  full  extent  of  our  obligation  to 
Mrs.  Lang. 


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